Jaime Neves

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Jaime Alberto Gonçalves das Neves (* 28. March 1936 in São Diniz, community São Martinho de Antas , Circle Sabrosa , Vila Real District , Portugal , † 27 January 2013 in Lisbon , Portugal) was a senior Portuguese military, most recently as Major General of the Reserve , who may have prevented a civil war in Portugal in the mid-1970s.

Life

Jaime Neves was born the son of a police officer in the small town of São Diniz (St. Dennis). He graduated from high school in Vila Real and went to study in Porto , where he first studied medicine for a few semesters before enrolling at the Escola de Exercito and starting to study military science, his fellow students were the later top general and President of the Republic of Portugal, General António Ramalho Eanes and Ernesto Melo Antunes . The decision to become a military man followed and then he moved again, this time to the official military academy in Lisbon. After graduating, he was deployed from 1957 to 1960 in what was then Portugal's colonies in Portuguese India and Portuguese West Africa ( Angola ) and Portuguese East Africa ( Mozambique ). There he was entrusted with various missions, including the organizational and logistical security of the marines in Angola. In March 1958 he was transferred to Portuguese India.

In 1975 he was stationed as a colonel (with the rank of colonel) in Amadora and was a unit in his shelter. Through internal communications, he became aware that an alleged military coup was imminent for November 11, 1975 by left-wing military police from Ajuda in Lisbon, and he informed the official authorities in Lisbon, which then had the alleged ringleaders arrested. Praised by the military council for his performance, he said the legendary sentence: I just wanted to prevent a civil war in Portugal . During the bloodless Carnation Revolution on April 25, 1974, he played an important role in defending the revolution with his regiments.

In 1981 he was retired with full military honors, despite his very young age at the time, but remained in the reserve as a military man.

During and after his service he received high government and military awards.

General Jaime Neves died on January 27, 2013 in the Lisbon military hospital in the Estrela district of the consequences of breathing problems. He was buried with great military honors in the Cemeterio Alto de São João cemetery in Lisbon.

The President of the Portuguese Republic, Prof. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva , the Portuguese Prime Minister Passos Coelho and the former Defense Minister and right-wing populist politician Paulo Portas , who saw Neves as a pillar of the Portuguese Republic, freedom and democracy.

plant

  • Homem de guerra e boemio, (A Man of War and Bohemian), autobiography, 2012.

Awards (selection)

  • Medalha de Grande Oficial com palma de Ordem Militar da Torre e Espada , 1995, awarded by the then President Mário Soares .
  • 2009 Honorary Major General of the Reserve for his services to the Portuguese military, the Portuguese Republic and Portuguese democracy by President Cavaco Silva, at the suggestion of Ramalho Eanes.

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personal data
SURNAME Neves, Jaime
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neves, Jaime Alberto Gonçalves das (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese military
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH São Diniz, Vila Real District , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2013
Place of death Lisbon , Portugal